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  2. Text types - Wikipedia

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    The exact form and complexity of a map depends, of course, upon the unique structure of each narrative and the personal preference of the teacher constructing the map. Kinds of narrative. There are many kinds of narrative. They can be imaginary, factual or a combination of both.

  3. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    follow the organization of a passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, draw inferences from a passage about its contents, identify the main thought of a passage, ask questions about the text, answer questions asked in a passage, visualize the text, recall prior knowledge connected to text, recognize confusion or attention problems,

  4. Outline of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Short story - A work of at least 2,000 words but under 7,500 words (between about 10 and 40 pages). Novella - A work of at least 17,500 words but under 50,000 words (90-170 pages). [6] The boundary between a long short story and a novella is vague. [7] Novel - A work of 50,000 words or more (about 170+ pages). Epic - A long poem.

  5. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Creative nonfiction: factual narrative presented in the form of a story so as to entertain the reader. Personal narrative: a prose relating personal experience and opinion to a factual narrative. Essay: a short literary composition, often reflecting the author's outlook or point of view. Position paper

  6. Simple non-inferential passage - Wikipedia

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    A loosely associated statement is a type of simple non-inferential passage wherein statements about a general subject are juxtaposed but make no inferential claim. [3] As a rhetorical device, loosely associated statements may be intended by the speaker to infer a claim or conclusion, but because they lack a coherent logical structure any such interpretation is subjective as loosely associated ...

  7. Stanford Achievement Test Series - Wikipedia

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    The SAT-10 is used in educational research to evaluate the effectiveness of policies, such as tying teacher salaries to students' test results. [10] A 1937 study found that the performance of male teenage delinquents on the then-current edition of the Stanford Achievement Test improved under the influence of benzedrine. [11]

  8. Fact-checking - Wikipedia

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    Key elements were the establishment of Associated Press in the 1850s (short factual material needed), Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World (his Bureau of Accuracy and Fair Play, 1912), Henry Luce and Time magazine (original working title: Facts), and the famous fact-checking department of The New Yorker. More recently, the mainstream media has ...

  9. Fact–value distinction - Wikipedia

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    This rendered all facts about human action examinable under a normative framework defined by cardinal virtues and capital vices. "Fact" in this sense was not value-free, and the fact-value distinction was an alien concept. The decline of Aristotelianism in the 16th century set the framework in which those theories of knowledge could be revised. [6]